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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-08-20
fTo BE CONTINUED
COAST ITEMS.

Reno is to have story hotel.
The hotels at San Diego are over crowded! !!
The young men Of Turlock have an anti
mustache club.
Los Angeles confines the Salvation Army
to their barracks.
Twenty thousand Lake Tahoe trout have
been put in the American river.
Tehama county has ISI, ,265 acres devoted
to fruit growing. Many acres are devoted to
primes and olives.
San Francisco Jewish land syndicate
representing So, 900, ,ooo, it is reported will
operate at San Jose shortly.
Clark, the Truckee forger. has been hound
over to appear at Nevada City in the Supreme
Court, with bonds fixed at $4,000.
The body found on the beach near San
Mateo with a bullet hole in the head has not
been identified. A searching investigation
INTO the mystery is promised.
Senator Stanford has purchased Of Will
liam NJ. Gwin Jr. the Government ranch in
Contra Costa county, which contains 3,O6S
acres of land. The consideration was sos ,ooos
Merced has lost its promised sensation.
The death of Mrs. Louisa Gray, which was
sudden, has been pronounced by the Coro-
ner's Jury to have been from natural causes.
1t was believed the reputation of physician
was endangered.
Miss Sarah Jane Warren, believing thai
- - ~ r II
Brock, a Los Angeles real estate dealer who
married few days ago Miss Perham visited
Mr.. Brock at his Office this week, and used
a cat nine tails several times on the gen
tleman's neck and shoulders.
Chief Engineer Donaldson of The Sar
Francisco and North Pacific Railroad ,late1
at Santa Rosa this week that the comnao.
will commence the construction Of an rx.er
sion Of their narrow guage from Sopoma b.
Napa at an early date. Work on N .>.eg
sion from Glen Ellen TO Los Gr tea. SO q.
commenced a once.
The posse after the Arizona Han robbers
b lieve they have 1nporau. lew which o5
yet bring success Ar.rr ~ 'r.,'a. "en
out from Tucson las uar. cong ,a.
country for miles arouoa &C.. e..
agre- that there were buJ $40 Iuu a.aa
ed in the robbery. |, no,ier tH
600 will not cover the los. A..oa sl-.
was in currency.
A story of horrible depratty comes tom
Tenino, Thurston county, w. T. A man
named Lewis left his sick wife and seven
little children at a farm house o bring doc.
tor. He went to Olympia, and there go,
drunk and did not return until sent for fou'
days later, when the dead and decompos.ng
body of his wife was found by the neigebors.
The children were in a famiShed condition
when found, nothing to eat having been leit
in the house. Two Of them ave ne' eEPesf
ed to recover
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-08-20
LYON COUNTY TIMES.
JOB DEPARTMENT.
The most complete country Job Office in
the State.
All Kinds Of Word done with Neat
ness and Dispatch.
Al
PRICES THAT DEFY COMPETITION.

PRICES THAT DEFY COMPETITION.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-08-20

general with some irritation. You Know
what it means, letting out messengers. I
wonder you ask me-"
at is a small favor, meinheer, and do not
think that it will much matter. Pretoria
will not be besieged much longer. l am
under an obligation to the people,"
well, well as you like; but, if any harm
comes Of it, you will be held responsible.
Write the pass; will sign it."
Frans Muller sat down and wrote and
dated the paper Its contents were simple:
"Pass the hearers unharmed."
"That 10 big enough to drive wagon along"
said the general, when it was handed to him
to sign. 1T might mean all Pretoria"
81 at, not certain if there are two or three
Of them, ans ~ered Muller, carelessly.
"wel,, var, you are responsible. Give me
the pen;. and lie scrawled his big, coarse sig
nature at the foot.
al propose, with your permission, to escort
the cart down with two other men. As you
are aware, 60 down to take over the COM
mand of the Wakkerstroom district to-mor-
row."
"Very good 1t is your affair. You are
responsible. I shall ask no questions, pro-
vided your friends do no hurt to the cause;"
and he left the room without another word.
When the great man had gone Frank Null
Ter sat down again on the bench and looked
at the pass, and communed with himself for
he was far too wise man to commune with
anybody else. "The Lord hath delivered mine
enemy into mine hand" he said, with smile,
and stroked his golden beard. "Well, well, l
will not waste his merciful opportunities as l
did that day out buck shooting. And then
for Bessie. l suppose l shall have to kill the
old man. too. am sorry for that, but it can't
be helped; besides, if anything should hap
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-08-20
CHAPTER XXI.
JESS GETS A PASS.

About 1880 on the morning following her
interview with Hans Coetzee, Jess was at
"The Palatial" as usual, and John was just.
finishing packing the cart with such few
goods as they possessed There was not much
chance of its being of any material use, for
he did not in the slightest degree expect that
they would get the pass: but. as he cheer
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
Ordinance No. 1877.
Published June o, 1851

AN ORDINANCE protecting railroads, railroad
platforms and yards in the city of Dodge City
against lOafers and persons not having legitimate
business thereon.
Be 1t ordained by the Mayor and Councilman Of the
city of Dodge City, Kansas
SECTION I. 1t shall be unlawful for any person
to go upon any railroad platform or grounds, at
any railroad depot, in the city Of Dodge City, for
the purpose Of soliciting customers for any BUSH
ness of any nature or kind within said city
SECTION III. Any person or persons who shall
go upon any railroad grounds or depot platforms
within the city of Dodge City for the purpose of,
while there, soliciting customers for any business,
or any person or persons who shall, while upon
any railroad grounds, or depot platforms, within
said city, solicit customers for any business,
stated in the preceding section shall upon convic-
ton therefor, be fined in any sum not less than
one dollar, and not more than ten dollars and
costs.
SECTION ILL., That any person not authorized
by, nor the employee or passenger of any railroad
company, or other person having legitimate bus
mess with such railroad company, who shall
within the city of Dodge City, jump upon, climb
or ride upon any railway car or train, standing or
moving upon any main or side tracks within said
city, shall upon conviction therefor be fined i'm any
sum not exceeding ten dollars.
SECTION ". That any person not having legiti-
mate business, about, in or upon the grounds
buildings or cars of any railroad company within
the limits of the city of Dodge City, who shall Ia
bitually or unnecessarily lounge, loaf or renal
in, about or upon such grounds, buildings or ca u
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanOr, and urs
on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum mp
ten dollars. OF
SECTION V. This ordinance shall take effect and
be in force from and after its publication once IN
the Dodge City TINES
Passed the Council June 4th 1887.
Attest : GEO. +. JONES, City Clerk.
r. W. TARBOX, Mayor.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
A BIG CROP ASSURED.

During the past week an abundance
of rain has been vouchafed in this local
ity. A heavy rasn visited this section
last Friday night and continued at tier
walls during Saturday and Sunday and
last night another copious rain fell in
this locality. Advices from all directions
show that the fall has been general and
abundant Thus far the rainfall has
been almost sufficient to insure crop if
the supply is shut off, but the experience
of the past years demonstrates that as
the acreage of cultivation increases, the
rainfall increases with it. Farmers who
have neglected to put in crops are very
respondent, those who have plOwed and
planted small patch are kicking them
selves because they didn't get in more,
and the farmer who can look out upon q
broad scope which promises him big
crop is jubilant and firmly believes there
is no place like southwest Kansas. y
Mullenville Mallet.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
ON f M o r f CO II N f. II
CRU S III E D.

The lesson has once more been taught
spectators that attempts to corner the
wheat market are pretty certain to re-
suit disastriously in the long run. The
plan to squeeze the bears until not an
other dollar could be twisted out of their
whole tribe looked for time like COM
plete success. The Chicago elevators
were nearly filled with grain brought in
by the shorts to fill their contracts, and
by country owner who saw fine chance
to sell out at profit, and still the flood
of wheat continued to pour in upon the
the staggering clique which was holding
up the market. But they appeared not
to lose confidence, and even within the
last few days there has been plenty of
of talk of its ability to force quotations
up to S1.20 bushel. Instead of such
wild advance as that there has been a
grand collapse, the price of the June op-
ton tumbling from 80 to Is cents, a loss
of II cents bushel. Some of the prin-
cipal brokerage firms through which the
bulls operated have failed, complaining
of desertion by the !cliques for which they
worked, and the whole scheme appears to
have ended in disaster. This is as it should
be. The interest of the people would be
best served by the disappearance of spec
ulation from the grain markets, and since
that cannot be helped for, the next best
thing is the collapse of every attempt to
corner wheat or any other staple.-Leav-
enworth Times.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
ELECTION PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, the Board of County Commissioners
Of Ford County, Kansas, have ordered an election
to be held in said county and state, on Wednesday
June I'D, 1887, for the purpose Of submitting to
the qualified voters Of said county proposition to
subscribe to the capital stock of the Arkansas,
Kansas & Colorado Railway Company, and tn is
sue the bonds of said county in payment for said
stock, and also at the time and place an cleo
ton has been ordered for the purpose of submit
ting to the qualified voters Of said county prOpO-
sition to subscribe to the capital stock Of the
Dodge City, MOntezuma & Trinidad Railway Com
pany and to issue the bonds Of said county in pay
ment for said stock
Now, therefore, /, r. W. Tarbox, Mayor of
Dodge City, by virtue of the authority i'm me vest
ed by law, do hereby proclaim and give notice that
an election will be held in Dodge City on Wednes-
day the I'D day of June 1885,, for the purpose Of
voting upon the propositions above named.
The said election will be held i'm the various
follows
FIRST WARD-Election will be held at Firemans
Hall, and A. Curtius, l.. n. York and Fred Berg
will act as judges in said ward and II. b. Brown
and j. NJ. Bell will act az clerks.
SECOND WARD-ElectiOn will be held at Hose
House No. 3, and Fred Gardner. j. W. Mahan and
A. II. Snyder will act as judges in said ward, and
W. Harper and j. j. Callison will act as clerks.
THIRD WARD-Election will be held at the Rink,
and L. X. Mcintyre, j. A. Arment and KObt Find
ley will act judges i'm said ward and ID. r. Owens
and j. W. German will act as clerks.
X. W. TARBOX,
Mayor of Dodge City
Attest GEO. f. JONES,
City Clerk.
June Sth, 1887. jet
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
NATURAL GAS FIND.

LINCOLN, ILL.,, June 14.-Lincoln is
worked up over natural gas find. 1t
has been found in paying quantities at
400 feet, and will burn freely. Yesterday
ffty-four citizens subscribed $50 each to
sink a we'll and bring it into use. Three
hundred acres near the city have been
secured and inside of two weeks force
of men will be delving into the earth.
Real estate dealers are stirred and prop
erty owners are asking higher prices.
Half dozen manufacturing corporations
have promised to locate, and it is believ-
ed that the population will double in a
year after gas is tapped.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
BALLOON ASCENSION.

An immense balloon was shipped from
Newark to st. Louis recently, to be sent
back on an ariel voyage in the interest of
science and as an advertisement for the
n Y World and St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Four men undertook the hazardous jour
ney, A. E. Moore, aeronant; j. G. Daugh-
ty, photographer; E. Wieder, correspon-
dent N. Y World; and II. A. Hazen, of
the U. S. Signal Service department.
The voyage so far as carrying out the
original idea of trip from St. Louis to
New York, was total failure, but for
scientific investigation it was the most
successful venture ever made in this
country The following is Mr.. Hazen's
report of the trip:
The balloon voyage, though short, has
been successful in the cause of science.
The great difficulty with the imitation and
ascension, which were hazardous to the
original intention of the projectors rath-
er favored the scientific results. The ne
cessity of expanding ballast at the outset
to clear the ground lightened it enough
to carry us nearly 1900 feet high, thus
giving an excellent opportunity for de-
termining the temperature and humidity
of the upper atmosphere. The temper
AZURE at starting was ninety degrees and
at the highest point it was thirty-six de-
grees at this point the air was exceed
ingly dry, though it had been nearly sat-
urated few minutes before at an alti-
tude of 5000 feet. The very rapid de-
cent, more than fifteen feet per second,
tested the pschycometer to its best and 1t
responded finely The second rise to 5000
feet checked the reading before made.
We were at the highest point twelve
minutes, and the second time at height
of 6. 600 feet, ten minutes. The direction
of the lower current was north east, and
that of the upper, east, precisely as pre-
dicted. The velocity of the balloon was
about thirty miles per hour nearly due
east. We landed in Hoffman, Illinois.
1t requiring the united exertion OF thirty
men to control the monster air ship, and
it was impossible to wholly subdue it with
out applying the rip cord, which finally
took the vital breath. No one OF the
party is at all discouraged, but are enthu-
siastic and another attempt will be made
(Signed) 81. ALLEN HAzEN,
q. s. Signal Service.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

The following from the San Diegan.
California, shows what might be done in
this county at very small expense:
An altesian well sunk at IndiO, in the
desert, by the Southern Pacific railroad
company, is now down four hundred and
fifty feet, and flows daily two hundred
and fifty thousand gallons of water. The
company proposes to deepen the well until
the flow will equal one million gallons
per day. A few years ago such thing
was not dreamed of. Anon. we shall hear
still stranger things coming from that APP
parent waste-that vast sand duue. Peo-
Die had as well prepare for it.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
SEN Major PLUMB ON GREAT
COMMERCIAL CENTERS.

Senator Plumb in lengthy interview
in the New York Tribune, says:
'One popularity of eastern opinion
has been that Kansas and Nebraska and
Dakota are remote from markets. The
people here seem to think that these
states are too far from the seabOard to
amount to must. The hold to mistaken
notion that lands are only valuable by
reason of proximity to the seaboard, and
consequently land that is 1,50O miles
away from New York must be worth
much less in proportion than land which
is only 800 miles away This is an erro-
neous idea. The building of the great
commercial centers like Chicago, ST.
Louis, Kansas City, Topeka and Wichita
creates values in lands by making local
markets both for consumption and ex
change. Kansas City, Leavenworth,
Wichita and Atchison. for instance. are
great milling markets for grain. The
millers of Texas come to Kansas for
large portion of their wheat, and the
millers of Illinois, Iowa and Indiana and
even of Ohio come to these cities for
their supply
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
KANSAS PATENTS.

S. A. Haseltine & Bro, patent sOlic-
itors, Springfield, Missouri, send us the
following list of patents, which were is
sued to citizens of Kansas during the
past week:
S. Kissing, Observation-Disclosures.
G. A. Greenleaf, Newton-Transfer of
embroidery patterns.
r. E. HUFF, Eureka-Sirup and meas
uring pump.
w. S. Reamer, Oswego-Rope measur-
ing device.
d. L. Snediker. Emporia-C Combined
support and passary.
John Westfall. -Stock-car.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
ANYTHING TO PRAISE KAN
SAS.

The newspapers of Kansas never tire
of saying good words fof the state. The
changes of its praises are sung on every
possible key, and by even the smallest
and most insignificant of its journals.
Whatever has at any time by any body
been said in praise of Kansas that once
gets into Kansas paper is sure to 60 the
round of hundred papers. The names
of Horace Greeley, General Grant, Blarne,
ingalls,, and fifty others have each in
their turn made the circuit, attached to
something complimentary they at some
time or other in their lives said of Kan
sas
Three or four or five months ago the
Republican copied short article from
the San Francisco Argonant in which the
opinion was expressed that those eastern
people who sold out their homesteads
for half their value and removed to Cal
ifOrnia with the expectation of getting
rich were far from wise. We endorsed
the article and added by way of comment
that instead of going to California these
people should travel half the distance
and locate in Kansas, where the condi-
tions were much more favorable. Sew
eral exchanges copied the article with
the comments, and one attempted to do
SO, but for brevity's sake botched the
matter by leaving out all the Argonaut
said and simply giving our introductory
line and concluding remarks, as follows:
The editor of the Sanfrancisco ArgO-
naut says: The proper thing for eastern
farmers to do is to sell out their farms at
the best possible figures, travel half the
distance, and invest in Kansas lands that
are certain to double in value within five
years time There is no risk to run in
such an investment. 1t is absolutely
SAFE
Yet in this meaningless form the item
has appeared in half a hundred Kansas
newspapers, attributing to the San Fran
cisco ArgOnaut a sentiment it never
thought of uttering and all because there
was complimentary allusion to Kansas
in it. 1t is. little wonder Kansas booms,
when her hundreds of newspapers are ev
er so Jealous in her praise.-Emporia
Republican.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

If the use of crude petroleum as fuel
for locomotives shall become geneal it
will be great boon for the travelling
public. Nothing is more annoying to
people who travel, than the flying cind-
ers that fill the eyes and ears and spoil
the temper. The new fuel will be a
great advantage in another direction
too. There will be no sparks to fly to
neighboring barns, fences, or hay or
grain stacks. It is doubtful if it will
pay to transport this new fuel far from
the petroleum fields, but if it will a
revolution in small way in railroad
ing is indicated by the successful tri
al trip of the train on the Pennsylva-
MIA railroad last Saturday.-Ex.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

The following from the Topeka Capital
will be found interesting to teachers and
others who desire the promotion of Tenn
perance
1t is understood that the teachers of
Kansas will hereafter have to qualify
themselves more thoroughly for the teach
ing of physiology and hygiene, with es-
pecial reference to the effects of stimu-
lants and narcotics on the human system,
as required by the present law of the
state. Ample time having elapsed for
the teachers to know the requirements
and to educate themselves in this line, it
is expected that hereafter candidates for
certificates will be prepared to pass
more rigid examination in this important
branch
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

Two Italian boys, who could not speak
a word of English, went safely from their
native country to Denver, Colorado, mere
ly with labels attached to their jackets.
If some people who can speak English
would travel the same way they would
get along better
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

The overworked clergyman must have
rest. More than hundred of them re-
Gently sailed from New York for Europe
in single day The overwOrked sinners
will take their vacation at home and at
tending to business.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

The enumeration in. Gray county closed
on Saturday last There was long and
interesting struggle for the location of
the temporary county seat, in which
Cimarron, Montezuma, and ingalls, par
ticipated. Cimarron came out of the
struggle with majority of 151 votes.
There were over 400 votes given.
ingalls, received the paltry number of 1O1.
after SO much blowing by its adherents.
Cimarron will now move to the front in
good shape.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

The salary paid Queen Victoria for
two wears Is $500, 900 more than has been
paid all the Presidents of the United
States since the Inauguration of Wash
ington. Monarchy is an expensive lux
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

Kansas is receiving plenty of rain and
lust at the time needed. ''Drouthy Kan
sas' is an obsolete term. The fair fields
of Kansas were never more promising
than they are at present. The season,
industry, enterprise and capital combine
to push the young commonwealth to the
front.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

No more whisky is to be made in Ken
lucky for a whole year. The Bourbon
Democracy, however, will not 60 dry.
There's three years stock on hand.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

The Vanderbilts, it is said, are going to
build lot of houses to be sold at cost to
purchasers on yearly payments. A new
and excellent feature of the plan will be
life insurance policy for the amount re-
naming unpaid which will cancel the
debt, if the purchaser would die, and
give his heirs the property clear. The
undertaking is one to be commended.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
PARTICULAR NOTICE.

TIME BUSINESS LICENSE TAX as per Ordi-
i nance No. 131, for Dodge City, Kansas, pub
ished In the oficial organ Of the city, the Dodge
call at my Office in First National Bank building
and make payment. ONCE hours from TO r. ..
m and to o'clock y. m.
H. NJ BEVERLEY,
City Treasurer.
Dodge City, Kansas June list, 1851. ms-4t
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
NOTICE TO LUMBER DEALERS
OF DODGE CITY, KANSAS.

CEALED PROPOSALS will be received at the
y Office Of the City Clerk until July 9Th, for the
furnishing of two inch oak and pine lumber during
mittee on streets and alleys, l.. N. York, j. W.
Mahan, j. A. Ament. Dated June q, 1887.
GEO. F. JONES, City Clerk.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

We learn from 678 Kansas exchanges
that the Sante Fe is coming. Also
the Missouri Pacsfic and the Rock
Island. An extra session Of the leg.
islature may be necessary to enact
. Law reserving small portion Of Kan
sas for agricultural purposes. Indepen-
denc Tribune.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

A new farm is SO easily made in Kan
sas, and the work may be so quickly done,
that an eastern farmer may dispose of his
things there in January come to Kansas
i'm February, and in March have large
field broken for garden and field crops.
With little energy and pluck he need
not lose a single CROP
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

s~ The DODGE CITY TINES has large ard
growing circulation in Ford and ADJOINING conn
Ties. and is a valuable advertising medium. IA
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

When the dentists Of this country
discover process Of extracting teeth
without causing . man to wish he had
been born hen. life wiz have twice as
much brightness.